Author: Brian Murphy

A new YouGov survey, commissioned by TheHouseShop.com, has underlined the growing concern over housing affordability in the UK. It’s widely accepted that for housing to be genuinely affordable, rents, mortgage costs and other housing related...

Communities Secretary Sajid Javid has launched an eight week review into home-buying and selling in England and Wales. The process aims to make transactions “faster and less stressful” by simplifying sales and tackling gazumping....

Research by the website Politics.co.uk has revealed that private landlords across the country are refusing to let their properties to Universal Credit claimants. 69% of letting agents questioned said that they had no landlords...

BBC programme, Inside Out London, has exposed how Right to Rent rules have created a black market in forgeries as undocumented immigrants attempt to flout the law. Innocent firms were said to be “easily...

The Communities and Local Government select committee has announced that it will hold an inquiry to examine several key issues within the private rented sector. These will include whether councils have enough powers to...

According to figures from broker L&C Mortgages, new buyers are often increasing their overall mortgage debt in order to tackle short-term financial pressures. The figures show that the proportion of young first-time buyers taking out...

Figures compiled by insurance agency, HomeLet, show that rents in Northern Ireland rose by 4.3% in the twelve months to September 2017 compared to an overall UK rise of 2.1%. These figures translate to...

Property portal, Rightmove, reports that rents in Britain dropped in the final summer months for the first time since they started tracking them in late 2011. The decline comes as landlords acquire properties in the...

A survey conducted by Intus Lettings has shown that UK landlords believe the perfect tenants are couples with no children. Perhaps unsurprisingly, students have been classed as the least desirable. In the survey 29%...